title: [Evaluation of nutritional state of patients with esophageal cancer treated by total parenteral nutrition].
abstract: Six patients with carcinoma of the esophagus (proximal and middle one-third) underwent intravenous artificial nutrition (TPN) both during preoperative radiation therapy and during the periods preceding radical surgery. From admission on, their conditions were evaluated and followed according to an established pattern of assessment of the nutritional state. Besides a certain improvement of the nutritional state at the level both of the muscular and adipose tissues, the results showed the reliability and the reproducibility of the serial anthropometric indexes adopted. With regard to the biochemical indexes most commonly utilized for evaluating the nutritional state, the results confirmed the doubts already casted about the reliability of a great part of these indexes when applied to this specific kind of patients.
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000378:metabolism; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods; D001835:Body Weight; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total; D012885:Skinfold Thickness
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids
vernacular_title: Valutazione dello stato di nutrizione di pazienti portatori di carcinoma dell'esofago, sottoposti a nutrizione parenterale totale.